To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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