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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We must listen to poets.
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