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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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 always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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