There is no original truth, only original error.
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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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We must listen to poets.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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