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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

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No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the his...more

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On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Be...more

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

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As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we atta...more

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This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a sh...more

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That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always...more

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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is rea...more