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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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