To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. — Gaston Bachelard
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. — Gaston Bachelard
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. — 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. — Gaston Bachelard
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard