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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard

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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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