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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

We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
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
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
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
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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Adult Children Lost See Thinking 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 cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin

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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