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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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