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Charles Thomas Newton
"Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families." --
Source : Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
Charles Thomas Newton
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“Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.”
“Come on, somebody be brave.”
“Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.”
“There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.”
Source : Charlie Kaufman (2008). “Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press
“Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.”
“We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.”
“Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.”
Source : Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”
“The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.”
