There is no original truth, only original error.
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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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