Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARD
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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