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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Gaston Bachelard

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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet

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