The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDThe dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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