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

Gaston Bachelard

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection 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
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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
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 cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
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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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
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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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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

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