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Gaston Bachelard Inspirational Quotes (81)

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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality but it helps us establish perspectives.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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 believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic weight depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
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Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the exalted substances.
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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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