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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 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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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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 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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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