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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
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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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World

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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