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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
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
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual

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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