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.
GASTON BACHELARDIf we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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