{"author":"Gaston Bachelard","author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["6","comfort","home","memory","safety","space"],"id":681,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"So  like a forgotten fire  a childhood can always flare up again within us.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["family"],"id":30966,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["sleep","soul","night "],"id":31272,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["8","home","house","memory","topoanalysis","topos"],"id":38189,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["doors","doorway","life","life-story","opening","spirit","story"],"id":47135,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"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.' - Gaston Bachelard, 'Reveries on Reverie (Anima - Animus)', The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, Page 88.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["dreaming"],"id":53427,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["children","gaston-bachelard"],"id":68907,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["daydreaming","daydreams","dwelling","house","past","space"],"id":70720,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["memory","past","time"],"id":70782,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it.' Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["192","baudelaire","immensity","intimacy","space"],"id":71392,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}