To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARD
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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