Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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For 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?
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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.
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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 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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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