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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Gaston Bachelard

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
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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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
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
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe

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