To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Man is an imagining being.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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