The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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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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Man is an imagining being.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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