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Fernand Braudel Quotes

«Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life»
«Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.»
«Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.»
«History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.»
Author: Fernand Braudel | Keywords: Movements