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

Gaston Bachelard

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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.
GASTON BACHELARD

Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent

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