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.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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 reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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