One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDA 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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 only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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