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

Gaston Bachelard

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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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
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
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth

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

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