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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 nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

History is history.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.