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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not ...

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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the ...

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Another Part of the Wood : A Self Portrait

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to viole...

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What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I...

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In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. Sh...

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Look at this charming donkey!

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Kenneth Clark

Psychologist

Born: 1914-07-24

Died: 2005-05-01

Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was an English art historian and director of London's National Gallery (1934–1945) who is remembered for his television series Civilisation first broadcast in 1969.More