We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARDA book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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