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

Gaston Bachelard

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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
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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
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
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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
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
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
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
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
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water

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