We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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