"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes."
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"History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
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"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
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"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."
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"It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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"History: gossip well told."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
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"The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and has returned him to the ancestral Germanic values of honor, loyalty and courage."
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"A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists."
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"I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you."
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"Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me."
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"The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power."
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"Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations."
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"The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals."
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"A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts."
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"History is a pageant and not a philosophy."
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"That great dust-heap called 'history'."
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