The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDEven a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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