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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
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
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
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
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
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress

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