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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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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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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude 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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People

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