The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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