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

Gaston Bachelard

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time

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