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.
GASTON BACHELARDFor 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?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Rilke 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.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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