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

Gaston Bachelard

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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.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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