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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Gaston Bachelard

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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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.
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