The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Cosmic 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.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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When 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.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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