No one knows exactly how we come into existence. No one has ever witnessed the "birth" of a Nation. One day, we just exist, and, at some point in the future, we'll just won't. We "die," yes, but that doesn't mean we stop existing. Land and people and culture: that is what a Nation is. Without that...
There's an emptiness.
I don't know. When Rome fell, when Charlemagne died and things collapsed--both times, I was very young. I didn't... Maybe I did understand it, but I didn't want to admit it. I wasn't alone, not really. but it was lonely. And I kept trying to fill in the emptiness, and everyone promised they would stay, and I believed them every time, and they tried their best--they really did.
It was beautiful while it lasted, it really was, but nothing lasts forever.
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No one knows exactly how we come into existence. No one has ever witnessed the "birth" of a Nation. One day, we just exist, and, at some point in the future, we'll just won't. We "die," yes, but that doesn't mean we stop existing. Land and people and culture: that is what a Nation is. Without that...
There's an emptiness.
I don't know. When Rome fell, when Charlemagne died and things collapsed--both times, I was very young. I didn't... Maybe I did understand it, but I didn't want to admit it. I wasn't alone, not really. but it was lonely. And I kept trying to fill in the emptiness, and everyone promised they would stay, and I believed them every time, and they tried their best--they really did.
It was beautiful while it lasted, it really was, but nothing lasts forever.