There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
GASTON BACHELARDWe 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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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 dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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