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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Gaston Bachelard

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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching

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