A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
GASTON BACHELARDOur 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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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