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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

Gaston Bachelard

We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

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