One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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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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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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