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Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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