The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

Facts show a different face depending on how they are written.

人の意見を聞いてから出る知恵は、本当の知恵ではない。

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyo Higuchi

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

-- Mark Twain

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway