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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 love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Source: Fragments of a Poetics of Fire, A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books. 1988; tr. 1990.
-- Gaston Bachelard, (Jun 27 1884-1962), French philosopher; He worte The Pyschoanalysis of Fire, (La psychanalyse du feu).

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