To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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 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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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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