The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARD
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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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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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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.
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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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A 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.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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 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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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