The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content.
In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time.

Thucydides

Stichwörter: history



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The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: history fame ruins



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Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

Teresa Jordan

Stichwörter: history story



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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

Francis Parkman

Stichwörter: history research



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Geschichte lebt nicht, wenn man ihr keine Heimat im Bewusstsein gibt; sie ist eine Last, die kein freier Mensch zu tragen gezwungen werden kann.

J.M. Coetzee

Stichwörter: history responsibility



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From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850)

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: life history humanity mankind



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Let us search the old highways.

H.D.

Stichwörter: road history



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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Joan Didion

Stichwörter: history genealogy



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In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

Vladimir Odoyevsky

Stichwörter: history mankind



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It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

Vladimir Odoyevsky

Stichwörter: past history time



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