Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

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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 what passes through it; a point of view.

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