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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 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 a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

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

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

History is history.

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

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