The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Man is an imagining being.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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