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

Gaston Bachelard

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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves

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