One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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.
GASTON BACHELARDWe comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARDTo verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough 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.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDThere are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
GASTON BACHELARDTo disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
GASTON BACHELARD