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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Gaston Bachelard

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality

The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

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