A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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 we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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