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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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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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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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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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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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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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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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