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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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