For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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