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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard

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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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
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
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
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
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
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
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin

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