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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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 are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World

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