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This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.


Charles Nicholl


#life

The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau packed full, one half filled with what was, the other with what is, what should be.


Jamie A. Hughes


#history #poem #life

In other words, Hitler's soul life was not mature enough at that moment to maintain an awareness of himself and his surroundings when this alien entity entered him. During the following six months during a series of irregular meetings and discussions with Hitler, Walter Stein was to witness a maturing soul development in this enigmatic character through which he became more and more a conscious and responsive tool of the world-shattering purposes of the demonic Spirit which overshadowed him. 'I move like a sleep-walker where Providence dictates,' said Adolf Hitler at a press interview.


Trevor Ravenscroft


#jesus-christ #nazism #the-occult #life

For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.


Plutarch


#lives #plutarch #story-telling #life

If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.


Nicole Krauss


#love

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.


Alan Lee


#history #love

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.


Nicole Krauss


#nicole-krauss #the-history-of-love #love

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.


Paula McLain


#marriage #tradition #marriage

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Art Opportunities


#art

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.


Virginia Woolf


#history #interesting #itself #men #more






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