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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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We must listen to poets.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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