Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Life
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.