Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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