The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDWhat 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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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