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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Gaston Bachelard

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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World

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