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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Gaston Bachelard

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
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
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
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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

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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