A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
GASTON BACHELARDBy 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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