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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World

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