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Gaston Bachelard Inspirational Quotes (81)

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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.
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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
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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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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
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By following the path of reverie-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to do phenomenology.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
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It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this failing asleep, the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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