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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

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 Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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 Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
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

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