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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

Gaston Bachelard

One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
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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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection

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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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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