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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
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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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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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By following the path of reverie-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to do phenomenology.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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