The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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We must listen to poets.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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 only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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