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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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