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"Europe has never been a producer of origins. It has been a consumer and a transmitter. Its genius lies not in invention ex nihilo but in the capacity to digest what it receives and to pass it on transformed, deepened, made available for new generations."

— Brague, Rémi event 1992

From Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization

Context: On Europe's distinctive mode of cultural creativity — through reception and transmission rather than pure origination. From Eccentric Culture (1992), trans. Samuel Lester, St. Augustine's Press, 2002. ⚠️ Verify against source.

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