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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."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
"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."
"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."
"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."
"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."
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