Gaston Bachelard

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

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

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

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.

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.