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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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 cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet

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