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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
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G. Bachelard
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
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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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Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality but it helps us establish perspectives.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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