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.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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