Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
GASTON BACHELARDLove is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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