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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.

Gaston Bachelard

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
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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Growth Space Tree
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet

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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