"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."

History, Time, May, Museums

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"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

History, Letters, People, Blood, Passion

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."

Barack Obama, American President

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words."

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