The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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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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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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