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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
Tony Judt
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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London
England
Tony Robert Judt
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I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
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We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.
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Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
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The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
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There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, This can't go on let's build a European Union. And it just wasn't like that.
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