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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.

Gaston Bachelard

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality

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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