Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.
Ich verstehe mit achtzig was ich mit siebzig noch nicht verstehen konnte, naemlich dass man am Ende so gut wie allen vergibt, nur sich selbst nicht.
I lay awake for hours in my twin bed next to the other, empty bed, feeling and hearing the spruces, the hemlocks, the rhododendron scraping at the partly open window, the verdant mountain out there in...
He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has in...
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
Gracefully
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.
The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.
Manchmal gibt es kaum etwas Schwierigeres, als zu jemandem zu sprechen, der ueber die Macht des Schweigens verfuegt.
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.
I wondered again if I might not actually be dead-if this was some terrible version of death, which I had momentarily mistaken for a continuation of life.
I hadn’t realized before seeing him how thoroughly alone I’d felt on that rain, headed toward the unknown, headed perhaps toward the larger loneliness of being unable to find my father or even toward...
These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.
Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to te...
The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war af...
It was as if she could hear music, where there was no music.
It is a fact that we historians are interested in what is partly a reflection of ourselves, perhaps a part of ourselves we would rather not examine except through the medium of scholarship; it is also...
I would not allow anyone into the center of myself; I would make myself a place to go, deep inside, no matter what happened.