"There is no original truth, only original error."
-Gaston Bachelard
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"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.“
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"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
-Gaston Bachelard
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"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."
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"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."
-Gaston Bachelard
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"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."
-Gaston Bachelard
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"I'll see you in my dreams."
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"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
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"Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number."
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"Don't be afraid of your dreams."
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