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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

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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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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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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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