The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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 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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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