All Societies Are Historical.

To Have One's Own Story Told By A Third Party Who Doesn't Know That The Character In Question Is Himself The Hero Of The Story Being Told, That's A Technical Refinement.

Happy Nations Have No History. History Is The Study Of Mankind's Misfortune.

All Confessions Are Odysseys.

Learning To Learn Is To Know How To Navigate In A Forest Of Facts, Ideas And Theories, A Proliferation Of Constantly Changing Items Of Knowledge. Learning To Learn Is To Know What To Ignore But At The Same Time Not Rejecting Innovation And Research.

Many Novelists Take Well-defined, Precise Characters, Whose Stories Are Sometimes Of Mediocre Interest, And Place Them In An Important Historical Context, Which Remains Secondary In Spite Of Everything.