Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Gaston Bachelard

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• Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Silence