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.
GASTON BACHELARDThere 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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