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“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
 
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Name:   Gaston Bachelard
 
Nationality:   French
 
Date of Birth:   Jun 27, 1884
 
Date of Death:   Oct 16,  1962
 
Profession:   Philosopher
 
 
 
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
 
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
 
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
 
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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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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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