For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Man is an imagining being.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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