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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Gaston Bachelard

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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Man is an imagining being.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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