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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space

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