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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

Gaston Bachelard

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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
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
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World

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