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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Gaston Bachelard

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
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
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
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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 comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves 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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
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
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
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right

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