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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

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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
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
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
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading

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