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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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 are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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