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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

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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 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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe

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