The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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