We are never real historians, but always near poets, and ou… - Gaston Bachelard

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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher of science and literary critic.

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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. - Gaston Bachelard

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