We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The blank page gives us 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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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The 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.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Man is an imagining being.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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