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 BACHELARD

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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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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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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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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