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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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.
GASTON BACHELARD

Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
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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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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection 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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time

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