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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Gaston Bachelard

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual

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