To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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