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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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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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