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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Man is an imagining being.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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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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