Gaston Bachelard 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.
Quotes to Explore
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.
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When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
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You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God - the blood of Christ itself - does not undo the past.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable.
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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.
