Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The 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.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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