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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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

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