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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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
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
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading

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