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Childhood lasts all through life.

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
Childhood
Lasts
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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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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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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 human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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