Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARD
GASTON BACHELARD
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Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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