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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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
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
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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress

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