We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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