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.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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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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