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 BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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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