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.
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Man is an imagining being.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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