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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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