The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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