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.
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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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