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Gaston Bachelard
Intuition of the Instant
Gaston Bachelard
“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer…”French philosopher Gaston Bachelard on our paradoxical experience of time:
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
“Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.”Gaston Bachelard, one of the most luminous yet underappreciated minds in human history, on the meditative magic of housework:
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
Gaston Bachelard
“There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.”
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard on dreams, love, solitude and happiness – beautiful read: