French - Philosopher | June 27, 1884 - October 16, 1962
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.
Gaston Bachelard
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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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