“Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on.”

— Geoff Dyer

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Context: Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).

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English writer 1958

Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) British writer

Source: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 30

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