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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Gaston Bachelard

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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special

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