If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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