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.
GASTON BACHELARDNobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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?
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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