One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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 reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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