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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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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we hav...more

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Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

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Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed...more

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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dw...more

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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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When the image is new, the world is new.

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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures m...more

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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images....more

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Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.