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

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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New 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
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
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special

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