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Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.
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All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.
Norman Davies
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The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.
Norman Davies -
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
Norman Davies -
Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.
Norman Davies -
A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
Norman Davies -
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
Norman Davies -
Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.
Norman Davies
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
Norman Davies -
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Norman Davies -
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
Norman Davies