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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.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.