التاريخ يُعيد نفسه، لكنّ النداء الخاص لفنٍّ قد مضى لا يتكرّر أبدًا. لقد زال من العالم تمامًا، كزقزقة طائرٍ بريٍّ أُبيد.

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”Joseph Conrad — Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays) (2015)