The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDA book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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