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Substance Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
- The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
- What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
- The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established…
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