It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
GASTON BACHELARDWords are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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 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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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