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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Gaston Bachelard

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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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We must listen to poets.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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