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 BACHELARDA 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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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