It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

Vladimir Odoyevsky
It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole...
It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole...
It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole...
It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole...
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The passage in which this quote appears is in the play "A Doll’s House," and it suggests that we can know the thoughts and feelings of people who lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

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