The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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We must listen to poets.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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