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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

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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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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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I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.
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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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