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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

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
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
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth

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

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