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.
GASTON BACHELARDIdeas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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