历史
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. The world around it will forget even faster.
"历史是由胜利者书写的，但真相往往藏在失败者的沉默中。"
历史是由胜利者书写的，但真相往往藏在失败者的沉默中。
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
I think that fiction is the best way to rewrite history.
I’m interested in the idea of history as a kind of fiction.
"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
"The past is a puzzle, and the historian is the person who tries to put the pieces together."
"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."
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
The historian is a prophet in reverse.
The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
The true history of the world is the history of great men.
History has neither the desire nor the capacity to make men better or worse; it merely records what they have been and what they have done.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable to no one.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. The artist loses his freedom the moment he creates a work of art.