The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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