A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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