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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

The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World

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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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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