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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Gaston Bachelard

Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

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