“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 words of the world want to make sentences.”

Gaston Bachelard
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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.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“There is no original truth, only original error.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“Man is an imagining being.”

Gaston Bachelard
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“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”

Gaston Bachelard
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