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.
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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from 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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Man is an imagining being.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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