For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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