Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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