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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New 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
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
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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

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