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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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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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We must listen to poets.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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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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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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