For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
GASTON BACHELARDTo 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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We must listen to poets.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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