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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Gaston Bachelard

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son 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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

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