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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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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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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We must listen to poets.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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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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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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