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"O futuro não é mais como era." - Paul Valéry
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The earliest evidence of this saying located by QI was published in 1937 in a journal called “Epilogue” within an article titled “From a Private Correspondence on Reality” by Laura Riding and Robert Graves. The authors who were both prominent literary figures asserted that the perception of the future had changed: 2
The human mind has reached the end of temporal progress: the future is not what it used to be, and people talk with less and less progenitive self-precipitation into the future, and behave with more and more fatally decisive immediacy. The future, that is, contains nothing but scientific development. It is an involuntary spending and manipulation of physical forces, empty of consciousness: it no longer matters.Also in 1937 the poet and philosopher Paul Valéry wrote a version of the phrase in French in the essay “Notre Destin et Les Lettres”. In 1948 his words were translated and published in English in “Our Destiny and Literature” which was part of the collection “Reflections on the World Today”. Here is the French statement and the English translation with additional context: 3
L’avenir est comme le reste: il n’est plus ce qu’il étaitThe above Valéry citation is listed in the important reference “The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs” from Yale University Press.
The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be. By that I mean we can no longer think of it with any confidence in our inductions.
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