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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Gaston Bachelard

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
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
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.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress

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