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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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