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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

Gaston Bachelard

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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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