A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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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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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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