"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

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Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

Gaston Bachelard

#Wise Quotes #Past Quotes #Connections Quotes

“I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.”
“And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.”
“The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality”
“So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.”
“We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.”
“It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.”
“Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.”
“I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.”

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