The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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