The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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