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Gaston Bachelard
“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos

Gaston Bachelard
“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard
“Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.”
Gaston Bachelard

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
Rumi

Gaston Bachelard
“I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos

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