Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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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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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record 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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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