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

 

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


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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

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

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

Gaston Bachelard

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.

Gaston Bachelard

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

Gaston Bachelard