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Childhood lasts all through life.

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
Childhood
Lasts
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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