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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

Gaston Bachelard

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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.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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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Children Event Life World
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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