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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Passion
Daytime
Dream
Hostility
Really
Badly
Always
Passions
Life
Solitude
Remains
Lived
Overloaded
Strange
Nocturnal

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