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The writing of histories – as Goethe once noted – is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past…. The writing of history liberates us from history. – Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty

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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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