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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?

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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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

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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