Quote #18
The words of the world want to make sentences.
More from Gaston Bachelard
- Man is an imagining being.
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
- 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 …
- There is no original truth, only original error.
- Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
- To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash …
- The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
- Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is …