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

Gaston Bachelard

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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
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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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 live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
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
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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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
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
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality

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