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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
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
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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
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

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