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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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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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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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