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

Gaston Bachelard

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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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