A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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