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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

Gaston Bachelard

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We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet

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