The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDWe comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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