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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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