One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
From Gaston Bachelard
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.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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