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Our house is our corner of the world.

Gaston Bachelard

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term

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