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.
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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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 word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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