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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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