For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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We must listen to poets.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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