"As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation."
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"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
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"None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back."
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"You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity."
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"In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life."
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"An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view."
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"History should be written as philosophy."
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"The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."
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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
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"My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger."
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"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
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"Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today."
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"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
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"if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate."
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"Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning."
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"For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others."
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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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"A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again."
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