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.
GASTON BACHELARDA 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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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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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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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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