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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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