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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Our house is our corner of the world.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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