“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”
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French writer and film director 1914–1996Related quotes
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus
Context: You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) Argentine politician and ex President of Argentina
Nota en Clarin 27/07/2005 http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/07/27/elpais/p-01201.htm <br class="br">Unsourced, 2005
William Pfaff (1928–2015) American journalist
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
IX. 408–409 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 5, “Rejoining” (p. 286)