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Quotes from The Mediterranean — Fernand Braudel

1902–1985 France

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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.

The Mediterranean (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fernand Braudel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.