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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Gaston Bachelard

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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New 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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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