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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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