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Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
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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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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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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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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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