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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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

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