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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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