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There is no original truth, only original error.

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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