One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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 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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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