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And so, in spirit, you need never say 'Good-bye' to Angkor. Its magic will go with you wherever fate and the Gods may take you.
- H.W. Ponder, Cambodian Glory. 1936
"Very sumptuous windows too, framed with carvings so delicate that one might think lace had been overlain on the stone. They have annulated bars, which look like little columns of wood, elaborately turned by lathe, but are in fact, of sandstone".
- Pierre Loti, Siam, 1902.
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"Today, the jungle is taking back its own, crumbling and swallowing proud buildings erected by proud men. Seeds dropped by birds have grown into trees and their roots have split the heads of the ancient gods. A thousand years the jungle has waited, watching the aspiration of man. Then man died. The living jungle crawled in to blot out the scar of civilization".
- James Childers. From Siam to Suez. 1932