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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Gaston Bachelard

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World

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