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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
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
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World

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