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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

Gaston Bachelard

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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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
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
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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

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