When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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