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Man is an imagining being. - Gaston Bachelard

Man is an imagining being. – Gaston Bachelard

Other quotes by Gaston Bachelard

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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Sleep
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Gaston Bachelard
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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. – Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry
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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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Beauty
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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I think were all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, theres nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild. – Malcolm McDowell

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Imagination

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. – Ella Maillart

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Imagination

She kept asking me if the stories were true. I kept asking her if it mattered. We finally gave up. She was looking for a place to stand and I wanted a place to fly. – Brian Andreas, Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings, 1993

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Imagination

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. – Andrew Bird

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Imagination

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In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers. – Author Unknown

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I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs. – Jake Owen

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

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