Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes

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• I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether…
• An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of…
• Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against…
• It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.
• I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
• After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date…
• There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
• From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
• What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
• Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear…
• Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than…
• An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

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