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

Gaston Bachelard

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
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
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
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand

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