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Our house is our corner of the world.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
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The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
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To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step while to go down to the cellar is to dream.
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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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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
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