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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
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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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
When the image is new, the world is new.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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