The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
GASTON BACHELARD
GASTON BACHELARD
Gaston Bachelard on listening
Gaston Bachelard73 quotes“The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.”
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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 BachelardGaston Bachelard We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The blank page gives us the right to dream.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard A 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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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AfrojackAfrojack I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
Nina SimoneNina Simone My debut album, ‘Forget the World,’ is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think.
AfrojackAfrojack When you’re walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you’re, like , ‘Oh, that’s my song.’ You want to say, ‘Hey Mom!’ That never changes.
AfrojackAfrojack If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
Tom PettyTom Petty People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
Paul SimonPaul Simon A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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