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Gaston Bachelard Quotes: The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
         

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.


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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.



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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.



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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.



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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.




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Our house is our corner of the 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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