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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Always Away Connection Maintain Must Past Pull

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Asked Benefit Chief Dream Dreamer House Name Peace Protects Say Shelters Should Were

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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Hears Listening Murmur Subconscious Truth

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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.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Express Expresses Life Live Live Life Living Longer Poorly Too Well

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Characteristic Did Know Knowing Our Progress Scientific Scientific Progress

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Beauty Born Exists Kind Language Special Which

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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 possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Being Belong Body Does Inn Morning Must Night Only Opens Our Out Phantoms Possession Rarely Repose Rest Sets Shadows Sleep Soul Sweep Us Within

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Aesthetic Books Imagination Literary Lover Object Offered Writer

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Make Sentences Want Words World

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

~Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Gift Hour Knows Mind Rather Reverie Soul Vacuum Which

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 27th, 1884

Died: October 16th, 1962

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