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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Gaston Bachelard

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
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 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

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