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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

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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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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

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