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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject

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