Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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We must listen to poets.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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 in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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