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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading

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