There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard
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- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
- The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
- 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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