Poetic Reverie Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects…
• To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
• Man is an imagining being.
• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not…
• Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of…
• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the…

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