It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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 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 is no original truth, only original error.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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