To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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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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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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