At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDFor a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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