Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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.
GASTON BACHELARDTo 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.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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.
GASTON BACHELARDTo live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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.
GASTON BACHELARDThere 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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
GASTON BACHELARDAll the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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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.
GASTON BACHELARDEven 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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDWhy should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
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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.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen 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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