The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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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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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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