A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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