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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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