There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDReverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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 lasts all through life.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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 book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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