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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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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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