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

Gaston Bachelard

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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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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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