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?
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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