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

Gaston Bachelard

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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

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

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