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GM Trevelyan

The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today…The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once on this earth, once on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own [...]

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Thank You Masked Man

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Primitive Mythology

Nevertheless, we are certainly in the same old book of which, so to say, all the earliest editions have been lost.
pg 191
Primitive Mythology
Joseph Campbell

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Primitive Mythology

…a terrific sense of clausterphobia, and simultaneously of release from context of the world above, assails the mind impounded in those more than absolutely dark abysses, where darkness no longer is an absence of light but an experienced force.
pg 42
Primitive Mythology
Joseph Campbell

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The Life of King Henry V

For he today that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
this day shall gentle his condition:
61-63
The Life of King Henry the V
Shakespeare