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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
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
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life

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