Alex

“It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.”
― Walter Benjamin, Aesthetics and Politics

“The work of memory collapses time.”
― Walter Benjamin

“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin