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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Man is an imagining being.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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We must listen to poets.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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