There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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We must listen to poets.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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