At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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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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