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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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 understand nature by resisting it.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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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