The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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 word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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