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Gaston Bachelard

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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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Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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 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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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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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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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