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Gaston Bachelard

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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 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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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

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