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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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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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