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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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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
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"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."
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"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
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"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."
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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
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"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."
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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."
Conscience
"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."
Life
"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."
Being
"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."
History
"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
Past
"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."
History
"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."
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"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
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