"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."

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Source : "Dead Certainties". Book by Simon Schama, p. 320, 1991.

Simon Schama

#Forever Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Gone Quotes

“I have been driven demented in my career.”
“If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.”
“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”
“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
“It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.”
“Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.”
“I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.”
“Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.133, Dial Press

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