The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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