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.
Gaston Bachelard
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
home comfort intimacy space
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.
nature trees space rilke
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting..
solitude
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
life
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.. Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
life help
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
listening truth
There is no original truth, only original error.
truth
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
man
Man is an imagining being.
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.
destiny infinity man
A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
benefits dreams peace
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
effort
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.
sleep repose inns rest
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
beauty language
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