"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."

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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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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

-Carl Jung

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