The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDReverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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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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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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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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