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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Gaston Bachelard

Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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 only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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