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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

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

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful. — Gaston Leroux

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down! — Gaston Leroux

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

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. — Gaston Bachelard

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things. — Gaston Bachelard

Who was big and strong, like you, M. Richard, gave two blows to M. Isidore Saack, who was small and weak like M. Moncharmin, — Gaston Leroux

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard

Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved. — Gaston Leroux

Blood! ... Blood! ... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous! — Gaston Leroux

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses. — Gaston Caperton

Raoul, you shall not pass! — Gaston Leroux

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost. — Gaston Leroux

We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us. — Gaston Bachelard

Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest — Gaston Bachelard

As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back. — Gaston Leroux

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard

Success in science depends strongly on your ability to trust your own judgements. — Nicola Gaston

[He] prepared to forget his distress by flinging himself ... into 'the vortex of pleasure. — Gaston Leroux

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. — Gaston Leroux

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity. — Gaston Bachelard

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

Judge a man by it's questions, rather than his answers — Pierre-Marc-Gaston Levis

That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."
Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism. — Ilona Andrews

He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love. — Gaston Leroux

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. — Gaston Bachelard

What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence. — Gaston Bachelard

Raoul," she said, "forget THE MAN'S VOICE and do not even remember its name ... You must never try to fathom the mystery of THE MAN'S VOICE. — Gaston Leroux

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception? — Gaston Bachelard

I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see! — Gaston Leroux

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? — Gaston Bachelard

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating. — Gaston Leroux

Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give
you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last. — Gaston Leroux

The poetic image exists apart from causality. — Gaston Bachelard

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! — Gaston Bachelard

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. — Gaston Bachelard

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live! — Gaston Gaudio

Childhood lasts all through life. — Gaston Bachelard

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. — Gaston Caperton

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. — Gaston Bachelard

Destiny has chained you to me forever! — Gaston Leroux

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now. — Gaston Leroux

The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold. — Gaston Bachelard

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. — Gaston Leroux

The reflected world is the conquest of calm — Gaston Bachelard

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

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

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. — Gaston Bachelard

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. — Gaston Bachelard

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. — Gaston Bachelard

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. — Gaston Bachelard

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik) — Gaston Leroux

I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead! — Gaston Leroux

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer. — Gaston Bachelard

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing? — Gaston Leroux

Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul. — Gaston Bachelard

The poet, in the novelty of his images, is always the origin of language. — Gaston Bachelard

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real. — Gaston Bachelard

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! — Gaston Leroux

We must listen to poets. — Gaston Bachelard

Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares. — Gaston Bachelard

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation. — Gaston Bachelard

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. — Gaston Arman De Caillavet

When the image is new, the world is new. — Gaston Bachelard

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving. — Gaston Bachelard

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them! — Gaston Leroux

That's the value of a college education ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. — Gaston Caperton

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

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience. — Gaston Bachelard

Modifying one's vocabulary to avoid embarrassment is a universal human behaviour. — Gaston Dorren

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. — Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis

Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing? — Gaston Leroux

I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses."
" 'Panic'?" Gaston asked.
"Smile at them or something. — Ilona Andrews

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. — Gaston Bachelard

THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED. — Gaston Leroux

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation. — Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices. — Gaston Leroux

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates. — Gaston Bachelard

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed. — Gaston Bachelard

All art is a confession. — Gaston Lachaise

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball. — Gaston Leroux

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest — Gaston Leroux

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in. — Gaston Bachelard

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself. — Gaston Bachelard

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream — Gaston Bachelard

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls! — Gaston Bachelard

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. — Gaston Bachelard

Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me. — Gaston Leroux

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! — Gaston Leroux

The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was "natural suicide." In — Gaston Leroux

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity. — Gaston Rebuffat