One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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