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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time

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