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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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.