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There is no original truth, only original error.

Gaston Bachelard

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet

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