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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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