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Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

— Richard Meier

Rome was not built in one day.

— John Heywood

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

— George Eliot

Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

— Venerable Bede

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

— Graham Joyce

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

— Robert Browning

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

— Thomas Carlyle

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

— Robert De Niro

✗Opposing Perspectives

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

— Meister Eckhart