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Past Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
- Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
- The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with…
- The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could…
- The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe…
- Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
- In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days…
- Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the…
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a…
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