Thursday, 30 June 2016

What is history?

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- James Joyce, Ulysses

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." 

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always." 

— Mahatma Gandhi

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." 
— Winston S. Churchill

"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it." 
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

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