"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.
He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he...
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