The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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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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A 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.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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