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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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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