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

Gaston Bachelard

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
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
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
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill

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