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The blank page gives us the right to dream.

Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New 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
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
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

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