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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.

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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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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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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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