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.
GASTON BACHELARDIdeas 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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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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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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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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Man is an imagining being.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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