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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.

Gaston Bachelard

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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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.
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