My Historical Journal...

"History, an enterprise requiring human effort, is often written from national motivations. History, in order to be scholarly, must in some way be freed from the limits this imposes." ~Timothy Snyder

"And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill— pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived."

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Jonathan Franzen (via purvipatel)

Posted June 3, 2011 at 9:24 am

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