Tuesday, August 01, 2006

 

On our responsibility to history

Those who are alive receive a mandate from those who are silent forever. They can fulfill their duties only by trying to reconstruct precisely things as they were and by wresting the past from fictions and legends.

- Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Lecture, 1980

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