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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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

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