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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
We understand nature by resisting it.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time

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