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

Gaston Bachelard

Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word 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
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
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
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
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World

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