The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDOur 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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