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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

Gaston Bachelard

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
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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
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
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
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
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading

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