Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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