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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

Gaston Bachelard

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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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