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"Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light."
Unknown Source &bull Faith
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Proverb &bull Hope
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
Aristotle &bull Education
"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."
Ralph Waldo Emerson &bull Choice
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Spanish proverb &bull Alcoholism
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Gaston Bachelard

(1884-1962) French philosopher and poet.
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There is no original truth, only original error.

Mistakes quotes

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.

Sleep quotes

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Desire quotes

Man is an imagining being.

Imagination quotes

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Past quotes

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literature quotes

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.

Home quotes

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Progress quotes

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Writers quotes

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Language quotes
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