What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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