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

GASTON BACHELARD

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

Gaston Bachelard

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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

GASTON BACHELARD

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Word
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Final Oneself
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

GASTON BACHELARD

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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Illusion Image Nourish Sweet
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

GASTON BACHELARD

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Image
There is no original truth, only original error.

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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Temptations
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

GASTON BACHELARD

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.

GASTON BACHELARD

We understand nature by resisting it.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

GASTON BACHELARD

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Listening Oneself
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.

GASTON BACHELARD

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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Awake Consciousness Poetic Record
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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

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.
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Corrective Repeat
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

GASTON BACHELARD

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Infinity

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