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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

Gaston Bachelard

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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
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
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol

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