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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

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection

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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