I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology