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

Gaston Bachelard

Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World

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