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Quote by Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse

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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. – Hermann Hesse

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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. – Hermann Hesse

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato

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