Gaston Bachelard Quotes

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.

Gaston Bachelard

• Life
• Dream
• Solitude
• Passions
• Daytime

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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.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Solitude