We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARDIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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