The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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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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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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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