Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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