As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with …

Margaret Atwood
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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