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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Gaston Bachelard

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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 word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
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
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
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

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