The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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