At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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