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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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 live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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