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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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