One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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