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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Man is an imagining being.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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