“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

— Joseph Conrad , book The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 8

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