We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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