If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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