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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard

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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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