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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
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
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
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
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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves

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