The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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