To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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To 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.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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