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Gaston Bachelard Quotes about Life

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Children, Events
"Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Childhood, Adults
"The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Wells, Ifs
"Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Book, Everyday

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Dream, Passion

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Men, Lasts

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Substance, Matter

Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."

Gaston Bachelard
Life, Tired, Heart

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