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Childhood lasts all through life.

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Childhood
Lasts
Life

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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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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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We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic weight depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
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