Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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