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“always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,”

— Marcel Proust

“The backward look behind the assurance Of recorded history, the backward half-look Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”

— T.S. Eliot

“...it turned out to be only our former chauffeur, Tsiganov, who had thought nothing of riding all the way from St. Petersburg, on buffers…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What a mess,” [Rubashov] said, “what a mess we have made of our golden age.” Ivanov smiled. “Maybe,” he said happily. “Look at the…

— Arthur Koestler

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”

— Paul A. Offit

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations…

— Robert Heilbroner

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an…

— Émile Durkheim

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe