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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

We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
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
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet

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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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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