A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
GASTON BACHELARDTo 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Man is an imagining being.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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?
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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