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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

Gaston Bachelard

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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