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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

Gaston Bachelard

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term

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