14 quotes by Gaston Bachelard

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

Language

3.4 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Writers

105 reads

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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.

Children

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Ideas

3.0 · 37 votes

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Ideas

3.8 · 44 votes · 129 reads

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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.
4.4 · 62 votes · 50 reads
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Art and Culture
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a Writerto a lover of books.
3.3 · 37 votes · 48 reads
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Thought and Reason
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
3.3 · 20 votes · 38 reads
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Virtues
Man is an imagining being.
3.3 · 46 votes · 52 reads
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Time
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
4.4 · 34 votes · 28 reads
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Thought and Reason
The words of the world want to make sentences.
3.6 · 31 votes · 13 reads
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Various
There is no original truth, only original error.
4.9 · 33 votes · 60 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
4.4 · 8 votes · 30 reads
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Nature
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
5.0 · 21 votes · 35 reads
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