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Inspirational Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
- Man is an imagining being.
- The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
- The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
- The poetic image exists apart from causality.
- Our house is our corner of the world.
- We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
- A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
- To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
- One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
- There is no original truth, only original error.
- Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
- The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
- Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
- One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
- We understand nature by resisting it.
- The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
- If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
- When the image is new, the world is new.
- For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
- We must listen to poets.
- It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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