Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDThe dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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