One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARD
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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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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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 cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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