The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDIf we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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A 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.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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