He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We must listen to poets.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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