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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World

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