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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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Build Home Live Oneself
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
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing

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