More from Gaston Bachelard

  1. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the …
  2. The words of the world want to make sentences.
  3. Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
  4. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
  5. The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
  6. There is no original truth, only original error.
  7. Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood w…
  8. To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash …

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