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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

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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession 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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word 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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