To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARDIdeas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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 our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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