Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDAny comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We must listen to poets.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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