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...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once were and what they had once done, if they only...more

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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you ...more

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And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the ...more

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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

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Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, charact...more

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She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it ...more