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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

If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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

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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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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