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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this failing asleep, the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
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It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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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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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
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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 repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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