Gaston Bachelard Quotes

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...

Gaston Bachelard

• Life
• Live
• Dream
• Alone
• Solitude
• Dreamer
• Summit
• Splitting

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  Gaston Bachelard
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  • Live
  • Dream