Quotemeal: Dec. 29th, 2009

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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

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— Samuel Taylor Coleridge —
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— Peter Damian —
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— Thomas à Kempis —

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

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