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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Man is an imagining being.
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