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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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