One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDRilke 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Man is an imagining being.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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