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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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