One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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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 repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

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