The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDIf we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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