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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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
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
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
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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

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