The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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