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The blank page gives us the right to dream.

Gaston Bachelard

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 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 must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception 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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World

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