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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Gaston Bachelard

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Experience Image Imagination Kill
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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