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History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
History isn't what happened. History is just what historians tell us.
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
History is not just the story of the past, but a mirror to the present and a window to the future.
"La memoria es el hilo que teje la historia de los pueblos, sin ella estaríamos condenados a repetir los mismos errores."
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
"History is not just a record of the past, but a mirror reflecting the present."
"History is not just a series of events, but a complex web of human experiences and emotions."
La historia de un país no se puede entender sin conocer su literatura.
La historia no es solo lo que sucedió, sino lo que pudo haber sucedido.
We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.
We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.
"The act of remembering is a way of reclaiming our history and asserting our presence in the world."
"History is not just about events, but about the emotions and thoughts of those who lived through them."
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
History is always written by the victors, but the truth often lies in the silence of the defeated.
