There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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