历史
"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.
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."