Gaston Bachelard
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DownloadA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in the child
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need
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Man is an imagining being
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth
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The words of the world want to make sentences
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There is no original truth, only original error
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer
