„Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.“

— Arundhati Roy

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„People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.“
— James Baldwin
„I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.“
— Barack Obama
„This verse that in acknowledgement I bringGoes back to the beginning of the endOf what had been for centuries the trend;A turning point in modern history.“
— Robert Frost
„Read day and night, devour books — these sleeping pills — not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.“
— Emil M. Cioran