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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Gaston Bachelard

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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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