“The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.”

— Gaston Bachelard

Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 2

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French writer and philosopher 1884–1962

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