The dead have need of fairy tales too.

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.

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

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

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

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