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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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