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Only Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in…
- Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,…
- Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
- For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to…
- There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with…
- The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of…
- Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the…
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