We understand nature by resisting it.
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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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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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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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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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