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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

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading

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

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