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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
Stories
Miniatures
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Clamor
Shells
Filled
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Word
Story
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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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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic weight depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
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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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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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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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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
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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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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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