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.
GASTON BACHELARDRilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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