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"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
The greatest fear is not of death but of life.
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence."
"A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers."
"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
The spiritual life is not a life of negation, but of affirmation.
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.
The poet is a dreamer who dreams with open eyes, and who sees the world not as it is, but as it could be.
The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.
The function of the writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
