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

Gaston Bachelard

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World

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

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