The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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