Francis Ponge quotes
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“Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.”
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“For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.”
-- Francis PongeSource : Francis Ponge, Beth Archer Brombert (1972). “The voice of things”
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“History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.”
-- Francis Ponge
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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