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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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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