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)

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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