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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Gaston Bachelard

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession 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
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
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
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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Gift Mindset Soul 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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man

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