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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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