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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

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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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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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