To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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