Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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