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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

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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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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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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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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