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All Quotes by author - Gaston Bachelard
" A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. "
Language
Special
Beauty
" Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. "
World
Life
Event
" Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. "
Souls
Communion
Ideas
" 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. "
Peace
House
Dream
" Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. "
Imagination
Writer
Aesthetic
" Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. "
Desire
Need
Man
" Man is an imagining being. "
Man
Being
Imagining
" One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. "
Always
Pull
Past
" Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. "
Future
Language
Poetry
" Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. "
Mind
Knows
Rather
" So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. "
Like
Forgotten
Fire
" The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. "
Progress
Science
Knowing
" The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. "
Dreams
Back
Us
" There is no original truth, only original error. "
Original
Only
Error
" 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. "
Body
Sleep
Soul
" The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. "
Truth
Listening
Subconscious
" The words of the world want to make sentences. "
Make
Sentences
World
" To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. "
Live Life
Living
Too
" Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. "
Never
Make
Whole
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