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 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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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 verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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