One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDOur 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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