The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
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.
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.
The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.
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 very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.
Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. `They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old letters one understands that people in the past really did live, and it is very touchin...
These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can...
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.
We went on growing food and eating and sleeping and I cooked for a big crowd here every day, all my family. What else could we do? You just go on, if you have to.
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition?...
Akimbo,
Nave
Perhaps when you live your entire life among such scenes, they do not register as beauty but as the world itself—
When the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After
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