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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
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
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
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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
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
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

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