The blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDDreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We must listen to poets.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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