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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Gaston Bachelard

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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