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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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