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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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