| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5050 |
| QUOTATION: | To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gaston Bachelard (18841962), French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist. A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988, trans. 1990). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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