“I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together:the city which used us as its flora-precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own:beloved Alexandria!”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
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British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer 1912–1990Related quotes
“We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.”
Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer
La generación FaceNoBook, Revista Alma Mater, La Habana (July 2012), p. 5
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
The Story of Utopias, Chapter One http://books.google.com/books?id=846mSPr_kaUC&q=%22It+is+our+utopias+that+make+the+world+tolerable+to+us+the+cities+and+mansions+that+people+dream+of+are+those+in+which+they+finally+live%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage (1922).
“Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past.”
Clifford D. Simak book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XLIII (p. 224)
“It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.”
Divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes.
Marcus Terentius Varro (-116–-27 BC) ancient latin scholar
Marcus Porcius Cato on Agriculture : Marcus Terentius Varro on Agriculture. W.D. Hooper & H.B. Ash. (translation). Harvard University Press, 1993. Bk. 3, ch. 1
De Re Rustica
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder