"There is no original truth, only original error."
-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.“
-Gaston Bachelard
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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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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
-Ray Bradbury
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"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
-Anne Tyler
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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
-Ray Bradbury
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