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Dead Quotes by Simon Schama
- 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…
- We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has,…
- It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely,…
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- I would rather have a living smile from one I know is true than tears round my casket when this world I… — Superman
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and… — Ray Bradbury