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.
GASTON BACHELARDEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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