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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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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Stories
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Clamor
Shells
Filled
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Word
Story
Words
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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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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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It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this failing asleep, the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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