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"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
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"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."
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"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."
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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."
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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
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"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
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"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."
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"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
Past
"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
"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."
Reflection
"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
"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."
History
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
Development
"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."
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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."
Reflection
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