The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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