Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDA 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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