Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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