Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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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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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 live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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