The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDNobody 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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