A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
GASTON BACHELARDWhat 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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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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 words of the world want to make sentences.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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 reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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