The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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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