The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDOur whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
GASTON BACHELARDWhy should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDEven a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDLove is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
GASTON BACHELARDInstead 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 BACHELARDCosmic 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 BACHELARDA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
GASTON BACHELARDWe comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARD