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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which co...more

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What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are s...more

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History is written by the victors.

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The work of memory collapses time.

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cit...more

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Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead...more

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What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

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The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should...more

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There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

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The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the en...more

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That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.