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# Peter Conrad

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##  Quotes by Peter Conrad

> [Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-conrad/losing-faith-in-your-own-singularity-is-the-start-of-wisdom-i-suppose/)

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> [The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-conrad/the-historian-s-job-is-to-aggrandize-promoting-accident-to/)

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> [All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-conrad/all-that-a-city-will-ever-allow-you-is-an-angle-on-it-an-oblique/)

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