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There is no original truth, only original error.

Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life 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 are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet

There is no original truth, only original error.

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