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«The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.»
«The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.»
«Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.»
«Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.»
«A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.»
«Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
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Ideas
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disengage, disengaged, rectification, repeated, valid
«Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life. . . . Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.»
«There is no original truth, only original error.»
«Man is an imagining being.»
«One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.»
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