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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Law

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell

Other quotes by Lawrence Durrell

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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Imagination
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Lawrence Durrell
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – Lawrence Durrell

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Time
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Other Quotes from
History
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The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. – F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution

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History

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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History

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in womens history. – Antonia Fraser

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History

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