Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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 clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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 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 special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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