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Them Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
- To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
- Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but…
- We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
- Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has…
- 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…
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