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Childhood lasts all through life.

Gaston Bachelard

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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.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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