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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Gaston Bachelard

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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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
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
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
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
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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 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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

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