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The thing about Cassandra is not that she was disbelieved, but that she was believed and then forgotten — which is the commoner fate of prophets.

Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
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Existentialist Embroidery

A tradition is not a material entity that can survive apart from any human agency. It can live only by a people's power to grasp its structure, and to answer to the warmth of its fires.

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