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 BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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