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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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