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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.

— Gaston Bachelard La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

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

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