The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having per…

- Gaston Bachelard

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images…

- Gaston Bachelard

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent thi…

- Gaston Bachelard

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the…

- Gaston Bachelard

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

- Gaston Bachelard

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of sol…

- Gaston Bachelard

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

- Gaston Bachelard

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

- Gaston Bachelard

Our house is our corner of the world.

- Gaston Bachelard