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.
GASTON BACHELARDRilke 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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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