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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
Words
Writing
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World
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Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the solitary situation, the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
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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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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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