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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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