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"In der Literatur geht es nicht darum, Antworten zu geben, sondern Fragen zu stellen."
"The future is not something we enter, but something we create."
"Reality is not what happens to us, but what we make of what happens to us."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
"You can’t just sit down and write a book. That’s not how books get written. Books get written by living your life, by being open to the world, by paying attention."
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
"History is not the past but a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveller."
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
"History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."
