The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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