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

Gaston Bachelard

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul 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
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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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 dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation 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
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
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull

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