So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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unless it...
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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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ANDREA GASTON We were able to work on both our strengths and weaknesses, and it's encouraging to see that. The rea...
ANDREA GASTON She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.
ANDREA GASTON We were the top-ranked team; it's nice to win the tournament. It's exciting to finish the regular se...
ANDREA GASTON The course played hard and they let the rough grow very long. We lost a lot of strokes on that hole ...
ANDREA GASTON In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakene...
GASTON LACHAISE Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of bein...
GASTON LEROUX The media would have exposed it, and the fans would have eaten him alive, ... I just decided that wa...
BOBBY GASTON The fans would have eaten him alive. I just decided that was not a fair thing for him. He's a great ...
BOBBY GASTON The media would have exposed it, and the fans would have eaten him alive. I just decided that was no...
BOBBY GASTON We got it right. That's what it's all about.
BOBBY GASTON Well, we emphasize that you call it when it occurs at the point of attack and if it has a bearing on...
BOBBY GASTON Well, we emphasize that you call it when it occurs at the point of attack and if it has a bearing on...
BOBBY GASTON We're walking on uncharted waters,
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BOBBY GASTON Actually, our goal is to have no plays overturned by instant replay.
BOBBY GASTON The rule said 'He must intentionally use his helmet to spear,' and we felt like it's hard to find an...
BOBBY GASTON We're back to planning for a strike. We're disappointed. That almost goes without saying. We're stri...
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GASTON CANTENS Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac...
GASTON LEROUX I didn't know Garcia-Lopez that well,
GASTON GAUDIO We could have passed a hat around the stadium and gotten our money back (to pay for the cost of repl...
BOBBY GASTON If we'd passed a hat around the stadium we would have gotten our money back.
BOBBY GASTON We're going to start growing sugar cane over there.
GASTON CANTENS I played really well during the first set. I think he was a little tired, he seemed asleep. So I too...
GASTON GAUDIO I came here to see if I could win some points and now I'm in the final. Tomorrow's another match and...
GASTON GAUDIO For me, it would be better if I can reach a few rounds or if I can win a couple of rounds here to ge...
GASTON GAUDIO I was expecting to make a better tournament here, but I play a guy that today was better than me. It...
GASTON GAUDIO I think it all went with the first set. Losing a tiebreak like that is painful, ... It affected me m...
GASTON GAUDIO And then from the baseline, he was playing pretty well too. So serving well and playing well from th...
GASTON GAUDIO While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would...
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GASTON CAPERTON You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adore...
GASTON LEROUX We have deserving students who are kept out of college or have difficulty completing their degrees b...
GASTON CAPERTON Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he...
GASTON LEROUX No, of course not.... Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love o...
GASTON LEROUX ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa...
GASTON LEROUX ...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-...
GASTON LEROUX Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.
GASTON LEROUX why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself...
GASTON LEROUX When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.
GASTON LEROUX Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like every...
GASTON LEROUX Our lives are one masked ball.
GASTON LEROUX He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead...
GASTON LEROUX But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?
GASTON LEROUX And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow ...
GASTON LEROUX Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest
GASTON LEROUX He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ...
GASTON LEROUX I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A...
GASTON LEROUX She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
GASTON LEROUX Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies ...
GASTON LEROUX Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her ou...
GASTON LEROUX Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so...
GASTON LEROUX Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
GASTON LEROUX None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and ...
GASTON LEROUX Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: ...
GASTON LEROUX You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All...
GASTON LEROUX Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Op...
GASTON LEROUX Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am ...
GASTON LEROUX He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to conte...
GASTON LEROUX Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like ever...
GASTON LEROUX I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not...
GASTON LEROUX All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
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GASTON LEROUX If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because yo...
GASTON LEROUX It was a very good match, I played very well during the first set. He seemed tired or asleep or some...
GASTON GAUDIO He was actually too good. I played a great first set and then he was playing much better than me.
GASTON GAUDIO I think all of the guys have been talking about getting a big win and Florida would be a really good...
COLT GASTON I think South Carolina would love to beat us and improve their ranking. Beating us would help them o...
COLT GASTON The Texas A&M match was a close one for us. I think everybody would rather start over and finish the...
COLT GASTON I remember he wore us out. He made some great, great catches on us. We're going to miss him. His fam...
CITO GASTON I remember he wore us out. He made some great, great catches on us.
CITO GASTON He was serving pretty well today,
GASTON GAUDIO I was expecting to make a better tournament here, but I play a guy that today was better than me, .....
GASTON GAUDIO I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.
GASTON GAUDIO He was better than me today. I didn't do anything.
GASTON GAUDIO Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placeme...
GASTON CAPERTON Affordability is essential to opportunity,
GASTON CAPERTON [The declining role of grants, which students do not need to pay back,] concerns all of us, ... Affo...
GASTON CAPERTON The growth accomplishes a parallel increase in students taking demanding courses such as pre-algebra...
GASTON CAPERTON Although there are more students from low-income families with college aspirations and more first-ge...
GASTON CAPERTON That's the value of a college education, ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make a...
GASTON CAPERTON It's unfair to those kids who don't get to take those good courses and don't get the chance to go to...
GASTON CAPERTON It's a concept that makes sense and would be very beneficial to the communities on the lake.
GASTON CANTENS You've got candidates that have in the past been certainly supportive of some of the issues that the...
GASTON CANTENS They would love to see nothing more than having homes out there.
GASTON CANTENS You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,
JAMES GASTON There's no doubt that this project is needed, ... But if you want more money for the air conditionin...
JAMES GASTON We must grieve his passing, thank God for his life, and celebrate it. ... This is the end of a chapt...
JAMES GASTON He died preparing to serve others,
JAMES GASTON To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce...
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