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1. "An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
2. "Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
3. "There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
4. "From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
5. "After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
6. "An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
7. "What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
8. "Die Mode jener Jahre war umständlich und töricht. Die Männer knöpften sich steifleinerne Krägen um die Hälse, enge, überflüssige, unschöne Kleidungsstücke, und umwanden sie mühsam zu schlingenden, zwecklosen Binden, sogenannten Krawatten." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
9. "In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most durable substance in the world…" ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
10. "The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow; he put faith in the invisible Word; it was the most miraculous thing in all the world; though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form" ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
11. "Can you remember, Acte...how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn't you feel as if the world had grown bare and colorless all of a sudden? Those people on the Palatine have tried to steal our Nero from us, from you and me. Isn't splendid to think that we can show them they haven't succeeded? They have smashed his statues into splinters, erased his name from all the inscriptions, they even replaced his head on that huge statue in Rome with the peasant head of old Vespasian. Isn't it fine to teach them that all that hasn't been of the slightest use? Granted that they have been successful for a few years. For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now, with our Nero, all these things are back again." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
12. "Vor ihm erhob sich die Feldherrnhalle, eine Nachbildung der Florentiner Loggia dei Lanzi, errichtet den beiden größten bayrischen Feldherrn, Tilly und Wrede, von denen der eine kein Bayer und der andere kein Feldherr war." ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
13. "Glauben Sie ernstlich'[...]'daß wir dieses Volk nicht wieder werden zu Menschen machen können?" ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
14. "I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza" ~ Lion Feuchtwanger

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived."
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