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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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

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