SURFACE

"On the surface of being, in that region where being wants to be both visible and hidden, the movements of opening and closing are so numerous, so frequently inverted, and so charged with hesitation, that we could conclude on the following formula: man is half-open being."

Source: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. Beacon Press, 1994.

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