One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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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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