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.
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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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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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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