History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
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