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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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We must listen to poets.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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