Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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 reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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