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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Gaston Bachelard

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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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