"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth."
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Source: Journal d'un inconnu (Diary of an Unknown Man, 1953) p. 143
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