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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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