There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDWe comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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