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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
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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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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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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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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality but it helps us establish perspectives.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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