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

Gaston Bachelard

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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We must listen to poets.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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