For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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