Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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