Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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We must listen to poets.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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