Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. - Simon Schama

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Simon Schama: "Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."

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Around	Aware	Chasing	Completeness
Corner	Dead	Documentation	Doomed
Earshot	Forever	Gone	Hailing
Historians	Inability	Just	Left
Painfully	Reconstruct	Revealing	Shadows
Someone	Thorough	World

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