A. G. Gaston Quotes
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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.
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.
Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.
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 proper world for reverie.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
