“If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.”
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“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”
“We have nothing but a history of our own invention to support this view. It suits us to believe it. It allows us to mistreat them, but convenience is not truth.”
“These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.”
“There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.”
“There must be possible a fiction which,leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”