The blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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