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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.

Gaston Bachelard

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World

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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