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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
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
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
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
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
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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual

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