Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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