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"To love things for their use is a function of the masculine. They are components of our actions, of our live actions. But to love them intimately, for themselves, with the slowness of the feminine, that is what leads us into a labyrinth of the intimate Nature of things."

I'm reading it as slowly as Bachelard deserves to be read. A great leisure reading!