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Reverie Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- 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…
- 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…
- Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
- The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
- How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is…
- Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming…
- Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the…
- It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant",…
- 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.
- If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory…
- Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
- A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well…
- In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all…
- Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of…
- 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…
- Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
- 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…
- The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
- It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a…
- By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is…
- The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness…
- 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…
- The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study…
- Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the…
- 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…
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- Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
- Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham
- It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire
- While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner
- He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin
- Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel
- The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — Alexander Hamilton
- In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the… — Sarah McLachlan
- Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief… — Darin Strauss
- Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo
- Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons