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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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