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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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
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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading

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