It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
GASTON BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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