So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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