"The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand."

-- John Keegan

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #History Quotes

“I'll cry at the end of the day, not with fresh makeup.”
“If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.”
“I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.”
“In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.”
“Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?”
“A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.”
“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”
“Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic

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