Ost-arbeiter/history/conditions

Famous quotes containing the words history and/or conditions:

    “We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “The strong sunlight, the wind from the sea,
    all the conditions of its existence,
    may have flaked off the paint, if ever it was painted,
    and made it homelier than it was.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)