Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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