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.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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