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

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

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

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

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

- 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