Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Man is an imagining being.
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