Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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