"The acceleration of history has profoundly transformed individual lives that, in centuries past, used to proced from birth to death within a single historical period; today a life straddles two such periods, sometimes more. Whereas history used to advance far more slowly than a human life, nowadays it is history that moves fast, it tears ahead, it slips from a man's grasp, and the continuity, the identity, of a life is in danger of cracking apart."
Milan Kundera, Encounter
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