The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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