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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Gaston Bachelard

If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son 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

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

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