For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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