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Man is an imagining being.
Gaston Bachelard
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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.
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To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step while to go down to the cellar is to dream.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
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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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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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 metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
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Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
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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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Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.
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