It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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