Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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 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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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