A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We must listen to poets.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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