Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Man is an imagining being.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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