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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Gaston Bachelard

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
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
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress

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