The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Man is an imagining being.
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