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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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Benefit 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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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

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