The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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We must listen to poets.
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