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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Gaston Bachelard

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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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 verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right

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