The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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