To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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 live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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We must listen to poets.
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