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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

Gaston Bachelard

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
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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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World

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