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“Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ( 鈥淣ot without the past鈥�)”
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“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library”
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“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”
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“Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?”
― The Devlin Diary
― The Devlin Diary

“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.”
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“History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend to it.”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts

“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is ONE left.”
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“Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you want won't surface. But ultimately the process is a little like tapping into the unconscious, and can bring with it the ambivalent gratification of rediscovering forgotten selves.
Rather than making new pictures why can't I just recycle some of these old ones? Claim "found" photographs from among my boxes? And have this gesture signify "resistance to further production/consumption"? (96)”
― Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays
Rather than making new pictures why can't I just recycle some of these old ones? Claim "found" photographs from among my boxes? And have this gesture signify "resistance to further production/consumption"? (96)”
― Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays
“Rakovina mi po troche d谩va v拧etko, 膷o v膹aka nej str谩cam. Starch z bolesti a zo smrti, sen o nesmrte木nosti a nezranite木nosti, rados钮 z vo木nosti, korzet osamelosti, nerozhodnos钮, 煤zkos钮 nad ot谩zkou, 膷i e拧te dok谩啪em 木煤bi钮. Ober谩 ma o moje 木ahostajn茅 driemoty a odmieta ich vr谩ti钮.”
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“Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness and clinical distancing.”
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

“No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the well respected doctors the likes of whom parents want their children to become someday.”
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

“Prezra膹 mi najv盲膷拧铆ch inzerentov v tvojom ob木煤benom printovom m茅diu a ja ti poviem, 膷o 膷铆ta拧 i 膷o ne膷铆ta拧.”
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“To, 啪e sa v谩m nep谩膷i obraz v zrkadle, ktor茅 sa v谩m niekto rozhodol nastavi钮, nie je probl茅m ani zrkadla a ani toho, kto v谩m ho nastavil. Tv谩r v 艌om je toti啪 va拧a.”
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“...wars are orgies of forgetfulness. The twentieth century has archived vast catacombs, tunnels of information in which researchers get lost and in the end abandon their research, catacombs that ever fewer people enter. Stored away---forgotten. The twentieth century, a century of great tidying that ends in cleansing; the twentieth century, a century of cleansing, a century of erasure. Language perhaps remains, but it too is crumbling.”
― Belladonna
― Belladonna

“This basic asymmetry with respect to archives is a reflection of the asymmetry between the two sides. While one side, operating through a modern nation-state, has used its documentary and other resources to produce a version of its history that has subtly shaped the way the world sees the conflict, a version that is now ironically being undermined from within via use of these same resources, the production of a standard 鈥渙fficial鈥� Palestinian narrative was never really possible on the other side.”
― The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
― The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

“To become feminist you need just two things. First accept reality that women are still not equal & then to have an opinion and say very loudly that they should be equal.”
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“Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing in their brick, glass, and steel structures, archives only include records that survived accident, were viewed as important in their time or in some subsequent period, and were deemed worthy of preservation. These records were originally created by fallible people like you and me, who could err in their jottings, hold vexed feelings they sometimes transmitted onto the page, or consciously or unconsciously misconstrue events they witnessed. Even in their most organized form, archived records are mere scraps of accounts of previous happenings, "rags of realities" that we painstakingly stick together in order to picture past societies.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

“Some historians, by prioritising accuracy of information and parading their attentiveness, diligence, and industry, emphasised only the objective of factual knowledge which might prove detrimental to their scholarly creativity, empathy, and synthetic power as well as their aesthetic judgement and broader understanding.
R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), p. 16.”
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R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), p. 16.”
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“The tide of nineteenth-century whig orthodoxy 鈥� with its unequal emphasis on constitutional history 鈥� subsided, in the mid-twentieth century, to reveal new approaches to History. In the Stubbsian realm of later-medieval political history, for instance, this tide鈥檚 retreat enabled the advance of waters which emphasised personalities and the importance of political connections and patronage networks.
R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), pp. 18鈥�19.”
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R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), pp. 18鈥�19.”
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“Description may require the study of individual documents which thereby stimulates examination of informational value: those actors, factors, or features populating the documentary landscape.
R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), pp. 30鈥�1.”
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R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), pp. 30鈥�1.”
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“The sphere of 鈥榟istorical research鈥� does not readily or exactly correspond with that of 鈥榓rchival practice鈥� but the notion that even if a single component of the latter is omitted from the former that that then validates the profession鈥檚 collective defenestration of all issues historical fails to appreciate the complexity of all arguments.
R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), p. 41.”
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R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), p. 41.”
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“A view of archivists as historians鈥� handmaidens accepts subservience, infers disciplinary subordination, and implies professional inferiority, which does not realise the scale and extent of archivists鈥� true accumulated expertise. Consequently, if we invert the proposition to pose not whether historians make better archivists but whether archivists make better historians, it is possible to consider not whether archivists should be scholars and engage in historical research but whether the realm of historical scholarship should incorporate archivists and archival activities.
R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), p. 46.”
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R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, 鈥楢rchivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice鈥� (2015), p. 46.”
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