To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARDEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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We must listen to poets.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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