A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
GASTON BACHELARDA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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We must listen to poets.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Man is an imagining being.
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