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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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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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