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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

Gaston Bachelard

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World

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