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Other Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the…
- Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear…
- One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
- Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the…
- I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of…
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