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

-Gaston Bachelard

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"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."

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"There is no original truth, only original error."

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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

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"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."

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"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

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