Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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