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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Gaston Bachelard

The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
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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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

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