Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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