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HHhH QUOTES

1 " I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events, dates, and the infinite branching of cause and effect - and these people, these real people who actually existed. I’m barely able to mention a tiny fragment of their lives, their actions, their thoughts. I keep banging my head against the wall of history. And I look up and see, growing all over it - ever higher and denser, like a creeping ivy - the unmappable pattern of causality ... How many forgotten heroes sleep in history's great cemetery? "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

2 " De wereld heeft lak aan uw lot. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

3 " Op dat niveau van politieke dwaasheid wordt verraad bijna een kunst.

“A ce degré de bêtise politique, la trahison devient presque une œuvre d'art. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

4 " How many forgotten heroes sleep in history's great cemetery? "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

5 " Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

6 " The dead are dead, and it makes no difference to them whether I pay homage to their deeds. But for us, the living, it does mean something. Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

7 " This scene is not really useful, and on top of that I practically made it up. I don't think I'm going to keep it. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

8 " …the thread of knowledge, once you pull at it, continues unraveling on its own. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

9 " Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

10 " Je me souviens d'une interminable digression d'au moins quatre-vingts pages, dans Notre-Dame de Paris, sur le fonctionnement des institutions judiciaires au Moyen Age. J'avais trouvé ça très fort. Mais j'avais sauté le passage. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

11 " No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism? "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

12 " «Los que han muerto, han muerto, y a ellos les es indiferente que se les rinda algún homenaje. Si hay alguien para quien eso tiene algún significado, es para nosotros, para los vivo. La memoria carece de utilidad para aquellos a quienes honra, pero sirve de mucho a quien se sirve de ella. Con ella me construyo, y con ella me consuelo» "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

13 " A ce degré de bêtise politique, la trahison devient presque une œuvre d'art. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

14 " That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

15 " Il me fallut attendre deux ou trois ans pour réellement prendre conscience de ce que j’avais toujours soupçonné : que cette histoire dépassait en romanesque et en intensité les plus improbables fictions. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

16 " You had to choose between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You will have war. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

17 " Een jonge vrouw die op Natacha lijkt staat op de brug, haar handen op de verschansing, een opgetrokken been dat met de zoom van haar jurk speelt, en ik, misschien ben ik daar ook wel. "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

18 " «Para que cualquier cosa pueda penetrar en la memoria, es preciso antes transformarla el literatura. No está bien, pero es así» "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

19 " «Cuántos héroes olvidados duermen en el gran cementerio de la Historia» "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH

20 " «Dejando aparte toda ficción más o menos ingeniosa, dudo mucho que el destino de una nación, y más aún el del mundo entero, dependa nunca de un solo hombre» "

― Laurent Binet , HHhH