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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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