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In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

Book by George Steiner · 5 quotes · Literal, Past, Achievement

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“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”