“History, we said men, has the responsibility for the dead of the past, whose heirs we are. The historical operation in its entirety can then be considered an act of sepulchre. Not a place, a cemetery, a simple depository of bones, but an act of repeated entombment. This scriptural sepulchre extends the work of memory and me work of mourning on the plane of history. The work of mourning definitively separates the past from the present and makes way for the future.”

Paul Ricour,
Memory History Forgetting,
p.499.