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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World

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