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How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.
– Andr Aciman

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  1. We loved with every organ but the heart. – Andr Aciman
  2. I think everyone is wounded in their sex,- I said. -œI can’t think of one person who isn’t. – Andr Aciman
  3. What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere. – Andr Aciman
  4. Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.But then perhaps this is what lovers are. – Andr Aciman
  5. If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity. – Andr Aciman
  6. Our bodies won’t have secrets now. – Andr Aciman
  7. Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine. – Avijeet Das
  8. The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable. – Karl Rahner
  9. If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. – Baruch Spinoza
  10. History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
  11. Good historians…have the future in their bones – Edward Hallett Carr
  12. History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. – Philip Guedalla
  13. Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense. – J Christopher Herold
  14. Chicks dig historians. – Cynthia Hand
  15. As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past. – Glenn Porter
  16. Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them. – Christopher Hill
  17. Historians are great gossips at a high level. – Marian Schlesinger
  18. Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. – Robert Black
  19. Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. – Robert Black
  20. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. – Glen Cook
  21. Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. – Konrad Lorenz
  22. Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it. – Andr Gide
  23. You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s your life, live it in whatever way is best for you. – Elle Sommer
  24. I’d rather live one year with Love, Peace & Joy, than live 10 years with Worry, Anxiety & Hatred. It is not how long I live but how well I live. – RVM
  25. Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. – Janet Goodfriend
  26. Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn. – Rico Dasheem
  27. …[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well… [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly… – Socrates
  28. Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. – Andr Gide
  29. There’s no better cure for the fear of taking after one’s father, than not to know who he is. – Andr Gide
  30. I am the soul in limbo. – Andr Breton
  31. Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality. – Andr Bazin
  32. Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. – Andr Breton
  33. Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. – Andr Breton
  34. I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. – Andr Gide
  35. A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost. – Andr Breton
  36. Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness. – Andr Gide
  37. Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. – Andr Gide
  38. In a world in which everyone cheats, it’s the honest man who passes for a charlatan. – Andr Gide
  39. Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least. – Andr Gide
  40. Time is a tease – Andr Breton

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