Gaston Bachelard - Water and Dreams

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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

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