The blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough 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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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