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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
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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 repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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