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.

GASTON BACHELARD

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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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There is no original truth, only original error.

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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Sweet
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Meadow
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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