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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Gaston Bachelard

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.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
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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Children Event Life World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual

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