The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough 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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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