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By following the path of reverie-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to do phenomenology.
Gaston Bachelard
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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
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Relax
Phenomenology
Never
Wander
Relaxes
Time
Constantly
Wanders
Following
Downhill
Consciousness
Reverie
Becomes
Clouded
Path
Consequently
Dream
Dreaming
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