We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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