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"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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"An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary."
"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."
"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."
"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."
"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."
"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
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