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.
GASTON BACHELARDIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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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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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Man is an imagining being.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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