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Man is an imagining being.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Man is an imagining being.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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