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

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Children
Gaston Bachelard

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

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Desire
Gaston Bachelard

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Man is an imagining being.
Imagination
Gaston Bachelard

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

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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words
Gaston Bachelard

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There is no original truth, only original error.
Mistakes
Gaston Bachelard

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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Metaphysics
Gaston Bachelard

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun