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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to

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. – Gaston Bachelard

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Sleep
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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Children
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To me, its far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. Its far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. – Michael Haneke

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Imagination

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung

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My identity is linked to my grandmother, whos pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So thats how I identify. – Jessica Hagedorn

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. – Joseph Joubert

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. – Walt Disney

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous. – Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched. – Alanis Morissette

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