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Man is an imagining being.


Gaston Bachelard

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GASTON BACHELARD The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARD So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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GASTON BACHELARD When the image is new, the world is new.
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GASTON BACHELARD To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no lon...
GASTON BACHELARD The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh...
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GASTON BACHELARD The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARD Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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GASTON BACHELARD I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. ...
GASTON BACHELARD The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARD There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARD Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARD If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreamin...
GASTON BACHELARD A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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GASTON BACHELARD Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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GASTON BACHELARD A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whi...
GASTON BACHELARD One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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GASTON BACHELARD How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give ima...
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GASTON BACHELARD Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely reveal...
GASTON BACHELARD Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...
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ALEX TIZON To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's be...
DENIS DE ROUGEMONT creative in imagining this and imagining that.
RICHARD FLEMING Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds."
"Um.....
ILONA ANDREWS Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
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JOHN GREEN What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and...
BLAKE CROUCH Jason hated being an old man.
RICK RIORDAN Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Reality is what your imagining right now
JAMES "JIMMYG" GRAHAM, C.HT. Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELL A real man never stop trying to show a girl how amazing she is, even after she's his
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VERNOR VINGE [I posed this question yesterday to Bobby Gaston , the Southeastern Conference Supervisor of Officia...
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GASTON LEROUX Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
JOHN GREEN Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way th...
JESSICA SOFFER Being a man is not enough, being a good man is.
JIM GENOVESE Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be a...
MARGARET CULKIN BANNING I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am...
UNKNOWN X Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL Everything is a theory and you are blind to comprehend it, and reality is nothing but an illusion.
ANONYMOUS BEING As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend...
AMOR TOWLES Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Never be unhappy by imagining a failure which will never occur. An attempt may fail but you will nev...
DR. SANJAY AGGARWAL Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
NATALIE DORMER We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our pers...
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RICHELLE MEAD I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...
KHALED HOSSEINI I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses.”
“ ‘Panic’?...
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ANNE TAZEWELL We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagin...
ZOLTAN KODALY In the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!
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UMBERTO ECO in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
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UNKNOWN Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
PETER O'TOOLE Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
THOMAS KEMPIS I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.
ANDREA GIBSON I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.
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