To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We must listen to poets.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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