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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard

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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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