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Henry Adams
(1838 - 1918)
Theodore Dreiser
(1871 - 1945)
Christopher Wren
(1632 - 1723)
Stefan Zweig
(1881 - 1942)
François Rabelais
(1494 - 1553)
Sozomen
(c. 380 - c. 450)
Albert Speer
(1905 - 1981)
Charles Babbage
(1791 - 1871)
Procopius
(c. 490 - c. 562)
Chrétien de Troyes
(c. 1165 - c. 1180)
William Tecumseh Sherman
(1820 - 1891)
Georg Simmel
(1858 - 1918)
Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)
H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1821 - 1881)
J.G. Ballard
(1930 - 2009)
Ibn Battuta
(1304 - c. 1369)
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804 - 1881)
Andrei Bely
(1880 - 1934)
Hans Christian Andersen
(1805 - 1875)
Helen Hunt Jackson
(1830 - 1885)
Herodotus
(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)
Franz Kafka
(1883 - 1924)
Thomas Malthus
(1766 - 1834)
Joan Didion
(1934 - 2021)
Ebenezer Howard
(1850 - 1928)
George W. Plunkitt
(1842 - 1924)
John Hersey
(1914 - 1993)
Marguerite Duras
(1914 - 1996)
Diodorus Siculus
(c. 90 BC - c. 20 BC)
Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862)
Theognis
(c. 570 BC - c. 490 BC)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896 - 1940)
Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891 - 1940)
Giovanni Boccaccio
(1313 - 1375)
Samuel Pepys
(1633 - 1703)
Hernán Cortés
(1485 - 1547)
Charles Dickens
(1812 - 1870)
Ammianus Marcellinus
(c. 330 - 395)
Nicolas Bouvier
(1929 - 1998)
George Gershwin
(1898 - 1937)
Sophocles
(c. 496 BC - 406 BC)
Honoré de Balzac
(1799 - 1850)
Lewis Mumford
(1895 - 1990)
Jane Jacobs
(1916 - 2006)
Ralph Ellison
(1914 - 1994)
Charles Baudelaire
(1821 - 1867)
Gustave Flaubert
(1821 - 1880)
Thucydides
(c. 460 BC - c. 404 BC)
Pliny the Younger
(61 - 112)
Vitruvius
(c. 80 BC - 15 BC)
Oswald Spengler
(1880 - 1936)
Irène Némirovsky
(1903 - 1942)
Friedrich Engels
(1820 - 1895)
Italo Calvino
(1923 - 1985)
Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899 - 1986)
Jules Verne
(1828 - 1905)
Fernando Pessoa
(1888 - 1935)